Wardrobe-trunk.



No. 858,572. f 1 PATENT'ED JULY 2. 1907.-

' V J. J. cAmnm- WARDROBE TRUNK.

{APPLIquroN FILED 00129. 1996.

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. ronn J; CANNA'N, or ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, ssIeNo'R TOHENRY LIKLY a COMPANY, or

PATENT osrrcs.

ROCHESTER, YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

Specification of Letters Patent.-

Application'fihd October 29, 1906. Serial No. 340354.

Patented July 2, 1907.

To all whom it may concern; H 2 I Be, it known that I, JOHN J. OaNNsN, of Rochester, in

7 the county of Monroe and State of New York, have in' jvented certaimnew and useful Improvements in Wardrobe-Truhks;- and I do hereby declarethe following to bea full, clear, and exact description of the same, refercles for outer garments, and the object of the present invention is to provide a trunk of this class havingdevices of an improved construction and arrangemeht for supporting wearing apparel such as clothing and other garments, and which is'so divided that it may be employed wholly as a garment receptacle, or it maybe converted into acombination arrangement by the application of a suitable cabinet adapted to contain toilet articles, linen and other articles which may be inclosed in a small space, novel devices being provided by means of which this cabinet may be readily applied or removed from the trunk, the latter being thereby adapted to use either wholly as a garment receptacle for the transportation and exhibition of. clothing and other garments; 'oras an ordinary travelers trunk adapted to contain garments as well as other accessories useful to the traveler. 1 1

To theseand other ends the invention consists in certain improvements and combinations of parts, all as willbe hereinafter more fully explained, the novel feacate similar parts.

tures being pointed out in the claims at the end of the.

cabinet removed from the trunk. 1 Fig. 4 shows the method of applying and removing'the cabinet relatively to'the trunk, and"Fig. 5 is a detail view, of the handle employedon thejtop oi the trunk.

' Similar reference numerals in theseveral figures indi- The present embodiment ofr'ny invention comprises 1 generally, a box or casing 1, preferably of a height sufiicient to enable the garments tobe suspended full length therein, and having a bottom,supported upon a set of casters or other suitable supports 3, sides 21 and the top 5, the latter being preferably surmounted .by a; handle p or projection 6 of such a height aswill prevent the trunk from being placed in an inverted position. Between the sides, and the top and bottom of the trunk is fitted a transverse partition 7, which serves to divide the interior space of the trunk into two separate compartments, and access to the latter is controlled by the doors 8 and 9 respectively, the latter being supported onhinges 10 and 11 arranged on the trunk sides, so that these doors will swing preferably in a horizontal plane, a roller- 12 being provided, if desired, on the unsupporte'd edge of each door and adapted to ride on thefioor to prevent sagging of the door.

In order to effectually seal the joints iorincd between the meeting edges of the trunk proper and the doors, I prefer to employ a sealing strip 13 at the inner side of the trunk opposite to the usual metallic band 14 which serves to cover the joint from the exterior, the sealing strip being attached to one of the relatively movable parts such as the door, and embodying a strip of leather,

felt or other flexible material, doubled longitudinally,

about a cord 'or wire 15, this cord or wire serving to form the doubled edge of the strip into a roll which is free or 'unattachedand adapted to overlap'the adjacent inner v edge or wall of the trunk, the doubled or folded portions of the strip being secured to that part of the trunk which is opposite to that part of the trunk with which the roll or yielding portion of the strip is arranged to overlap. A device of this kind, by reason of its yielding or resilient properties, will effectually seal the joint between the door and the trunk proper, and will thus exclude dust, dampness and insects. I

In the upper part of the trunk are arranged suitable are so constructed and arranged that while they are being employed for sustaining the garments, they may be drawn out to render the garment conveniently accessible for inspection or removal and replacing, and when the trunk is closed, they may be compactly arranged within the tru nk The garment-supporting slides, in the present instance, are substantially duplicates, the slide 16 being adapted to be withdrawn from oneof'the compartments, while the slide 17 is arranged to be withdrawn in an opposite direction from the other compartment. Each of theseslides is composed of arod ortube doubled .intermediately to form a loop 18 which is adapted to serve as a handle at the forward end of the slide to facilitate manipulation thereof, and the extensions beyond the looped portions are arrangedsubstan- ,ti'ally parallel to form a pair olguidcrails 19 andZO, and between the guide rails is arranged an intermediate "supporting rail 21 which is adapted to cooperate with arrangement which will"economizc the space in the i spending sides of the intermediate bearing to limit the ticles of apparel are'heldin suspended position from v the hooks 22 of the garment liangersZS, one end of this supporting rail being secured to the handle or looped portion of the-slide, while its opposite end is provided with a rernm'able nut or limiting projection 24. These i slides maybe mounted many appropriate manner, but 1 it is'preierab'le to provide a telescoping or interfolding trunk, and a mounting of, this kind is shown in the present embodiment, comprising an intermediate or center bearing member 25'made upot' a bar secured to the under side of the top of the trnnk by screws or other suitable means and provided with a set of transverselyarrauged apertures 26 of a size and arrangement corresponding to the diameter and spacing of thcguide and supporting rails of ihe'sli'des; the limiting projections 24 on the slides being arranged to cooperate with the corre withdrawing nwvemeut oi the slides, complete with-- drawal ol' the latter being permitted by removal of this not or projection. On the opposite sides of this center:

bearing areprovided a pair of outer bearings 27 and 28, these bearings Comprising bloc-ks suitably'securcd t0 the top of-the trunk in amanner similar to that de- .scribed for the center bearing, the bearingsZY cooper- I 'ating with the guiderails ofthe slide 16, and thebearings 28 cooperating with thocorresponding rails of the sli'def17- to sustain the weight imposed upon theseslides when they arein withdrawn position; These slides are so constructed that garment hangers of various iorms may be'suspe'ndedtherefrom and adjusted longitudinally thereof,- and course the garments and other ar- -these hangers and in ordertojpreventfthefdisariangement of the garments hen'the trunk occupies a. position otherlthan the vertical, it-isjpreierableto employ a compressor oii follower, einbodying'generally,a substantiallyrigidframe-work 29'suspended from the/supporting rail oithe slide the snap hook 30an'd having tightening straps 3 1 ior pressing it against the garments to hold-them inproper arrangement.

The novel .arrangement iof slides described enables: both compartments to be employed as a; container for garments, and a trunk constructed in thisway is-well adapted "toithepurposes and requirements of ajnd thos arrying a 'line of samples of clothing and other garments which should be kept carefully folded and supported by suitable hangers, and whichmaybe -corivenieritly accessible for exhibition, but thepre'sent combination.-arrangementwherein one compartment is reserved exclusively ior the '"spended garments, and ,the other compartment is ad tp't'ed; both as a garment receptacle and to receive a cabinet which maybe empl yed for otherfpurposes, the cabinet show-n being adaptedto-contain toilet articles'and other'devices-of a nature that wouldpermit. them to occupy comparafiveiy small space, orsuch devices as may be placed within the trunk, being .so arranged, of cr,u1rs e, that when the appropriate door of the trunkis' open, these drawers are accessible.

Any appropriate devices maybe employed tor dev tachably mounting the cabinet securely within the trunk, the devices employed in the present. inst-a. (a embodying a pair of lower attaching members 35, one ofjeach being secured" to the lower rear portion'oi the cabinet and provided with a vertical slot Ziti'therein arranged to enterl'rom abovcand cooperate with a correspondingly arrang ed supporting projection 37 on the inner side of thetrunk, and the upper attaching members 38 secured to the'sides of the cabinet toward the top thereof, and provided with a ir'n'wardly and upwardly extending slot 39, adapted to receive the corresponding projections 40 arranged on the sides of the .trunk by a relative tilting movement of the upper portion of the cabinetin adirection first rearwardly, while the lower projections 37 areresting at the openings of the slots 36 in the lower attachingdeviccs, and then' by downward movement, which enables'the projections being thereby supportedwitliinthe trunk and held t5 137 and 40 to enter'and cooperate with the upper ends of the v ertical slots in the attaching devices, the'cz binet iromlateral displacement byinezihs oi the angular slots in the upper attaching devices, and byrcason oi .the fact that the casing-rests firmly against the partition- 7 of the trunk but 01" (-ourse'this pa-rtitionpii desired, may be omitted, the rear wall oithe cabinet serving as'a backing for the garments arranged in the opposite side of the trunk.

Itis preferable to provide a large and substantial handle on the top oiatrunk oi this kind which will not only serve as a-convenient grip ioiythe .baggagemen oi from being inadvertently'stood in an inverted position,

as this would disarrange the garments contained by the trunk, and the-handle shown in the present em-y ofthe trunk. Each end piece or attaching member is provided witlran-aperture 46 which is formed in the others handling the trunlr bnt to prevent the trunk I body portion of 'the member preierably at a point adjacent to where one of thelegs or attaching lugs'adjo ins,'m 1d in these apertures rests-the cndso't a connecting .rneinb'cr 4 7 which serves as a handle for the grasp of the hand, this handle being made of any suitable material, although hard'wood may be used to advantage, and it may fit either i'otatably or firmly in the apertures of the end pieces a firm fit being generally preferred.

'Ahandle of the kind described may be. cheaply constructed and is well adapted to'thc purposes intended,

as it is sufficiently stro'ngto withstand the blows to I salesmen, as well asthe ordinary traveler, theimproved construction and arrangement of the garmentsupportingslides enabling either a part or the whole of sesame v a the trunk to be utilized as-a garment receptacle horn which the garments may be reached in the most con-' venient way, and the cabinet and its supportingdevices enables the trunk to be altered so that the space thereof is appropriated to the best advantage, to the purposes of the usual traveler.

Iclaim asmy'inventionz" 1. Ina wardrobe trunk, the combination with a trunk casing having door openings at its opposite sidesfof two slides adapted to support garments and arranged to be moved outwardly in opposite directions, a guide located centrally of the trunk and-supporting the inner ends-of both slides andfseparate bearing numbers also supporting the slides andjarranged at opposite sides of-the guide.

2. In awardrobe trunk, the combination with a casing, guides depending fromthe top of the casing and agarment supporting slide comprising side, rails supported in the guides and an intermediate rail arranged in the plane "of the side rails.- v

In a wardrobe trunk, the combination with acasing having door openings at its opposite sides, and a partition wall dividing it into two compartments, of two garment" ment through said opening and embodying a member having a pair of parallel guide rails, an intermediate garmentsupporting portion, a handle portion connecting the forward ends of the guide rails, and bearings coiip'erating' with the guide rails for slidingly supporting the slide.

5. In a wardrobe trunk, the combination withthe trunk casing having a garment compartment therein-and an opening for affording access thereto, of 'anadjustable garment-supporting member adapted to be extended or withdrawn through said opening and embodying a bar doubled to form outer guide rails and forming a loop or bend at the forward end of the slide adapted to serve as a handle, and a garment-supporting portion on the member and bearings supported on the trunk for slidingly"mounting the garment-supporting member. I

6. In a wardrobe trunk, the combination with the trunk casing having a garment compartment therein and an opening for affording access thereto; of a garment-supv porting slide for said compartment embodying a pair of cess, each slide embodying a pair of guiderails,-and a garment-supporting rail arranged intermediately of the guide rails, an intermediate bearing arranged to'coiiperate with the rails of both slides, and a pair of bearings arranged at each side of the intermediate bearing and co operating with the guide rails of the respective slide.

' 8. In a wardrobe trunk', the combination with. the trunk casing having"a-garment compartment therein, of an extensiblegarment-supporting slide embodying a pair of guide rails, a' connecting portion'between the said rails adapted to serve as an operating handle at the forward .end of the slide, a rail arranged intermediate of the guide of garment-supporting devices, bearings for adjustahly supporting the slide, and a device cotip'erating with one of the bearings for limiting the-movement of the slide in one direction.

open at its opposite sides and a cabinet removably mounted in one side of the casing, of two garment supporting slides locat'ed above the cabinet each extending the full width-of the.casing and movable outwardly therefrom in opposite directions.

2 10. In a wardrobe trunk, the combination with a-casing having door openings at its opposite sides, and a cabinet arranged therein. and accessible through "one of the openings, of a. garment supporting frame extendingthe full width of the casing and projecti'ngover' said cabinet and casing.

11'. In a wardrobe trunk, the combination with the trunk body or casing having openings in the opposite sides 7 thereof, of adjustable garment-supporting devices mounted in the casing and adapted to be withdrawn in relatively the casing and accessible through one of said openings.

12. In a trunk, the combination with the body or casing thereof, andprojections suitably arranged therein, of a cabinet adapted to removably fit into the said casing, 'and devices thereon adapted to cooperate with the said projections in the casing to detachably secure the cabinet in position therein.

thereof, and inwardlyextending projections arranged on the vertical sides thereof, of a cabinet adapted to fit into the said casing, and attaching members arranged on the 'vertical sides thereof and having slots therein adapted, to

controlling access to the cabinet.

" 14. Ii! a trunk, the combination with the bodyo'r casing thereof, and pairs of upper and lower projections extending inwardly from the vertical sides thereof, of a cabinet adapted to fit into theeasing, a' pair. of attaching devices slots adapted to receive the lower pair'of projections of the casing by a relatively downward movement of the cabinet, and a pair of upper attaching devices arranged on the sides of the cabinet having angular slots therein extending relatively forwardly and upwardly, and adapted to receive the upper pair of projections of the casing by a relative movement of the upper portion of the cabinet first re'arwardly and thence downwardly.

' JOHN J. CANNAN,

Witnesses:

- Emu E. WILLIAMS,

.InNNin M. VA'IL.

rails and adapted to serve as a'support for the suspension 9. In a wardrobe trunk,-the combination with a casing movable outwardly through the other opening'in said opposite directions through theopenings in the casings, and a cabinet adapted to removably fit into a portion of,

. the cabinet in position .within the cabinet, and a door for 13. In a trunk, the combination with the body or casing secured to the sides of the cabinet and having vertical 

